[OSM-talk] OSM > Shapefile and MySQL linkage, help.

[GodSmurf]

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> 
> GodSmurf wrote:
> 
>> If anyone could give me any pointers in how to change it to a  
>> shapefile
>> using XP (Apache and all the things installed with MS4W 2.2.2) or  
>> let me
>> know what I actually need and how to go about it all, I will be most
>> grateful.
> 
> IMO you might be aiming too high at present. OSM is an evolving  
> project and a lot of the tools are (a) in their infancy (b) as yet,  
> aimed at a very tech-savvy developer audience. In addition, many of  
> the developers here use *nix of some sort (usually Linux, very  
> occasionally OS X) and are not so familiar with Windows.
> 
> It might be worthwhile for you to consider using prerendered OSM  
> tiles, rather than shapefile vector data.
> 
> FWIW, here's what I'd do: download planet.osm; put (some of) it in a  
> MySQL database using planetosm-to-db.pl; then directly query it using  
> a db backend which the Flash file could call.
> 
> cheers
> Richard
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Thanks for the input there.
Tried running the perl script but it keeps erroring out saying about @INC's.
I've copied stuff from the perl utils page but it still keeps erroring out.
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